SigMF 1.8.0

Easily interact with Signal Metadata Format (SigMF) recordings.

The sigmf library makes it easy to interact with Signal Metadata Format (SigMF) recordings. This library is compatible with Python 3.7-3.14 and is distributed freely under the terms GNU Lesser GPL v3 License.

This module follows the SigMF specification html/pdf from the spec repository.

Install

pip install sigmf

Read SigMF

import sigmf

# read SigMF recording
meta = sigmf.fromfile("recording.sigmf-meta")
samples = meta[0:1024]  # get first 1024 samples
sample_rate = meta.sample_rate  # get sample rate


# read other formats containing RF time series as SigMF
meta = sigmf.fromfile("recording.wav")   # WAV
meta = sigmf.fromfile("recording.cdif")  # BLUE / Platinum
meta = sigmf.fromfile("recording.xml")   # Signal Hound Spike

Docs

Please visit our documentation for full API reference and more info.